Thursday, August 16, 2012

HS - The body of Buddha


How should great bodhisattvas see the body of Buddha? 
They should see the body of Buddha in infinite places. Why? 
They should not see Buddha in just one thing, one phenomena, one body, one land, 
one being, --- they should see Buddha everywhere. Just as space is omnipresent, 
in all places, material or immaterial, yet without either arriving or not arriving there, 
because space is incorporeal, in the same way Buddha is omnipresent, in all places, i
n all beings, in all things, in all lands, yet not arriving nor not arriving there, 
because Buddha's body is incorporeal, manifesting a body for the sake of sentient beings. 
This is the first characteristic of the body of Buddha; great bodhisattvas should see it thus.

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